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Category: News
Media: Video
Turnaround time: More than a month

Description of story

On May 30, a Thai media rights activist, Chiranuch Premchaiporn, could face 20 years in prison for failing to remove reader comments quickly enough from an independent news website.
The comments allegedly insulted the Thai monarchy. And, according to a 2007 law, not only are commentators criminally liable for insulting the monarchy, but so are intermediaries such as web forum providers.

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As journalists this is fascinating with the whole media censorship issue. Just crazy!! What ended up happening to Chiranuch?

In terms of a critique, it played and felt like a straight up news story for TV. Visually it was shot just ok, didn't get a sense of your style of shooting, moments, details.

As a story I wanted to know what kind of pressure she is feeling at this very moment. Knowing she could get 20 year in prison for Lese Majeste how is preparing for what could happen? What about her family, friends etc.

As a way of improving myself I have been trying to improve my critiquing. I am by no means an expert but here is my two cents.

It did have a very newsy feel which I enjoyed.

Some simple things that you could lookout for is the white balance between shots. The close up interview with Chiranuch is very yellow compared to the others. CJ Hinke is also yellowish green in the last interview. Could you do a custom white balance with a grey card?

I felt like you were trying to cover too much of the background political environment. At around 2:50 we heard about the elections while watching close ups of a guards rifle shoes ect...

I did like that you got someone from the courts to explain the reason for these laws.